WEBVTT - Joe's Star Spangled Breakfast Cereals! 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:17.280 Arm Strong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.880 It's like you right now should come out and be like, 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.200 you know what, the young man who's about to win 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.600 the state championship in the long jump in female sports, 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.680 that's that that shouldn't happen. You as the governor should 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:36.600 step out and say no, no, And I appreciate, and 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.640 but like, would you do something like that, would you 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:39.880 say no men in female sports? 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:41.559 Well, it's I think it's an issue of fairness. I 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:42.680 completely agree with you on that. 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.960 What are you talking about? He didn't even say anything there. 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.440 How did it become controversial and he got attacked from 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.800 the left for betraying the transgender community. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:54.320 He didn't. 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.480 He went wishy washy on that. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:02.720 Well, although he broke cranks. It was like the far left, 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.080 the intersectionality crowd. It's like, you know, the the Russian 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.280 soldiers on the front in Ukraine. If say so much 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.040 as turn in the wrong direction their own people shoot them. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:16.319 And Gavin showed signs of betraying transgender women. 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:17.959 And you can't betray anybody. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.400 The Eskimos need to stick with, the transgenders need to 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.720 stick with, the immigrants need to stick with. The Palestinians 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:24.399 need to you know. 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:26.800 Now I heard he walked with that back over the weekend. 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:28.640 Do we have that anywhere? Has anybody got that in 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.400 written or audio form? I meant to look that up, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.720 that he walked that back after getting blasted by a 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.560 number of your more woke democrats in the country. And 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.720 again he didn't even make a strong declarative sentence there. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.039 He just said, oh, no, I agree, it's an issue 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.040 of fairness, okay, and you think it's fair to what 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:54.200 allowed transgender girls unfair exactly sicily you still haven't said. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.400 Right, right, yeah, and yet that was way too much 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.640 for their crowd. But anyway, that whole you know, NATO 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.520 of intersectionality, whatever you want to describe it, that's how 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.400 you end up with something as patently absurd as queers 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:11.000 for Palestine. I mean, what could be more idiotic then? 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.359 You know, people who would be immediately tortured, killed, throw 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:19.160 off buildings, et cetera, rallying in favor of Islamism. Anyway, 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.440 Speaking of Gaviy Newsome, his state of kel Unicornia. How 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.000 did it rank? Can US News and World Reports do 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.280 ranking of the states? 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:29.320 Now? 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.840 US News and World Report appears to exist only for 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.800 ranking various things these days, and their methodology is certainly 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:41.240 worth griping about. But I think generally speaking, if you're ranked, say, 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:46.200 forty seventh in education, you're not great at it. Can 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:50.320 we all agree on that, at least broadly speaking. But 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:56.960 your top state overall, ladies and gentlemen, think about it. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:04.799 Lowish crime, solid economy, good education that's probably not real, 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:18.440 woke infrastructure, great natural environment. I give you Utah. New 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.440 Hampshire took the number two spot overall. Nebraska came in 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.120 at number three overall. This is an article from an 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.760 Orlando outlet. So they talked about Florida. Fairmount Florida placed 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:34.480 number nine, partly because the Sunshine State ranked highest among 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:41.080 all fifty states for higher education and the economy. Anyway, Hey, 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.000 you know, we could do the overall rankings if you want. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.160 You want your top ten, bottom. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.240 Ten for overall all criteria. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:04:00.920 Yeah, your top ten mass counting up to number one, Massachusetts, Florida, Washington, Vermont, Iowa, Idaho, Minnesota, Nebraska, 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.760 New Hampshire utah of your body. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.840 Really small and or low population states. There, not all 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.000 of them, but a lot of them. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.600 Yes, I would agree, Yeah yeah, and some right, some left, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:18.080 some center, blah blah blah. Again, you could certainly quibble 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.760 with the various methodologies. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:22.640 I always keep dougging into it. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.479 I mean, because if you have, for instance, like Illinois, 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.120 Let's see where do they rank in education? Because Illinois 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.760 got a number of eminent universities, they ranked quite high, 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.920 sixteenth in education. But I guarantee you elementary through high 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.240 school education is unforgivably horrifically. 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.040 That's a state and that's what I want ranked. 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.960 Yeah, yeah, really in a lot of ways, because that 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.320 there's a direct correlation between that and whether they're they're 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:57.320 teaching the basics. Actually, here are allegedly your worst states, 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:04.400 and these might surprise as well. Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Michigan, Oklahoma, 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.560 South Calabama leading the country and shooting criminals in the 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:12.200 chest right well, and population growth as a percentage, so 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:18.279 it ain't that crappy. Alabama, Alaska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:19.760 New Mexico. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.719 And wah wah wah. 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:27.120 Sad Marty Ga trombone for Louisiana. It's a funny punch 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.800 line if I hadn't stumbled over it. But some of 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.000 these numbers, I mean, like South Cakilac, which I know 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.800 pretty well, is nineteenth for environment. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:39.200 What does that even mean? 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:39.599 I don't know? 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.680 See, And that's the trouble I have, Especially. 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.680 If you get into overall ratings, you'd throw in a 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.600 whole bunch of squishy numbers and come up with one big, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.320 giant squishy number the environment. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:49.960 I don't know. 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.400 And it's quite possible that I would rank them completely 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.440 upside down on their criteria for whether I want to 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:57.040 live there or not. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:58.600 You know what I mean. 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.200 If they say that they rank it high because they 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:05.039 have better recycling programs with the garbage, I don't care. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.640 So I would have an inverse relationship with that. Yeah, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.559 let's see. Yeah, I'm looking. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.680 Actually, I think the whole looking at their methodology might 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:20.640 be interesting then more interesting than the actual the results. 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:24.480 You know. I'm on this. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.640 I have been for a long time, this kick of 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.200 public education and how we're failing so much that should 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:36.480 be we should be talking about that all the time. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.480 How many people are graduating from your local grade school 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:40.200 or high school? 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:41.520 That can read or do math. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.720 That should everybody should know that off the top of 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.320 their head those numbers, right. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:53.080 Yeah, I would agree. I would agree completely. Who's doing 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.560 the measuring and what are their standards? That's what you 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.679 need to know. Oh, that reminds me on a completely 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:04.520 different topic of the sky rocketing rate of autism diagnosis 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.440 in the United States, and Alicia Finley, I think it 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.400 was wrote a really interesting piece. And I have a kid, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.120 an adult child now, who's autistic, and I'm fairly up 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.400 on this sort of thing, and I certainly have a. 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:19.040 Sympathetic view of it. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.280 But this is a classic example of trying to understand 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:26.800 what's happening in the modern world and plawing through the 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.080 layer after layer of statistics and trying to figure out 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:34.280 what's true and not. I believe firmly that there is 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.720 a rise in autism in the United States. I have 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.760 no idea what's costing with doubt actual cases of kids 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.320 with the characteristics that. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.600 Describe autism. Okay. 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.880 On the other hand, there have been all sorts of 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:57.520 changes in diagnosis and in the financial rewards. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:57.920 For school districts. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:03.400 For instance, for kids diagnosed they get extra money and 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.080 so to rely on any of the statistics. Well, Trump 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.720 throughout the other day that we've gone from one in 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:14.760 ten thousand kids it's diagnosed with autism, now it's one 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:15.760 in thirty six. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.119 There's something wrong, one in thirty six. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.520 He said, A large measure of that statistic is just 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.400 changes in incentives and diagnosis, but not all of it. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.000 And so I'm not leaping to some fist pounding, angry 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.480 talk show host conclusion here. I'm just saying it's really 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.240 difficult to figure out what's actually going on into what extent. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.880 Yeah, and then, if I'm going to be fair, even 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.719 though I complain, we complain constantly about how many layers 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:47.240 of administration they've added to schools clear across the country, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.480 which is also true, all kinds of people that don't 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.440 need to be there making a living in your school, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.120 getting the tax money, as opposed to getting into the classroom. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.839 If you got way more kids with autism and all 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:05.320 kinds of different issues, you're gonna need more support. Just 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.880 a regular teacher only can't handle a class if you 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.319 got five autistic kids in there, right, right, It's a 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.360 classic example of both are true. I think there's a 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.079 rise in autism and a skyrocketing rise in the diagnosis. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.920 They mentioned in the Wall Street Journal here that one 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:27.520 kid out of six in American public schools or diagnosis 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.960 having a disability, one out of six and five in 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:33.480 every class of thirty kids. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.000 But do they really. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.079 Yeah, and then if you I know, I know a 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.520 lot about this, But it wants the infrastructure to deal 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:47.400 with that is, the human infrastructure is huge and very expensive. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.120 Right right, And where he's needed a beautiful example of 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.600 a compassionate society, in my opinion, where it's legitimate. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.760 Yeah, well, you know, you don't need all those layers 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:04.080 of DEI chieftains and their and their armies. 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.559 That's a completely different thing. But was I gonna say. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.679 I was gonna say, they're talking about you get down 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.920 there their kids, and then the teachers, and you get 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:14.560 all thets. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.200 I forgot what I was gonna say. It's probably being 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.320 out Trump. I mean. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.240 The upside is I can uh hide my own Easter eggs. 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.760 You know, I can watch the same sitcom over and 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.360 over again, laugh every time because I never heard. 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.560 I don't remember the joke. The downside is I don't remember. 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.000 I was about to say, maybe we could get an 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.400 official diagnosis out of you and get some gunman money 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:40.520 for the show. Michael can be your minder. Michael, we'll 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:41.960 cut you in on the profits. Were fair. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.160 That sounds fine, fair minded. This is really bothering me. 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.000 I can't think of this because this is an important topic. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:53.680 It was a complex and last diagnosing more kids with 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.120 more things, and so you got to have the humans 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:57.080 there to deal with it. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.559 And I don't know one more thought. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:04.000 Bill Cassidy was a doctor, medical doctor, not a fake 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.760 doctor like Jill Biden. He's a Republican senator and an 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:13.000 r f K Jr. And he were disagreeing leading up 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:17.400 to RFK Junior's hearings, right what do they call it, 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:24.600 you know, consent hearings and and and RFK kept saying, hey, 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:29.559 you show me the science that says these inoculations are 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.320 not related to autism, and I will change my tune. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:34.000 I will believe it. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:40.480 And Bill Cassidy says, I brought him absolutely sterling, silver science, 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.720 huge studies, carefully controlled, peer reviewed blah blah blah, that 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.480 made the case. And he dismissed it out of hand 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:48.960 and said, now I don't believe that stuff. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:50.319 Oh really, I didn't hear that. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.719 Yeah, and so Cassidy's really frustrating, frustrated with him that 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.839 and and one of the reasons R F. K. Junior said, 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.600 I don't believe that because of this paper here. Cassidy 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.760 said that that paper has been discredited in every which way, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.720 And I have no horse in this race. It's just 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:11.160 it's the methodology was terrible, but Harf Cages wouldn't believe it. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.320 So it's, you know, tough to get to the truth 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:14.960 these days. Yeah, it is. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.080 And I have spent a lot of money and a 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.640 lot of time, including this past weekend, on dealing with 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.439 one kid that's got a variety of the problems that 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:23.320 exists in this world. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.600 But I'm not concerned they came from the vaccine. So 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.480 that's just me. Send your emails to Joe if you 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.000 have a different thought on that. I'm more on the 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:33.840 way here. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.080 If fetanyl ends, I think these will come off. But 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.600 if fetanyl does not end, or he's uncertain about it, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.839 they will stay this way until he is comfortable. This 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.840 is black and white. You got to save American lives. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.880 So with respect with respect to fetanyl, this is about 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:57.240 the border and fetanyl. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.400 That's Howard Lutnick to the Secretary Commerce talking about the tariffs, 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.560 the fentanyl, the precursor chemicals at the very least, which 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.280 come from China then flow through Mexico and to a 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:08.760 lesser extent Canada in. 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:09.679 The United States. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:15.560 And speaking of China, really interesting analysis I came across 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.560 and troubling from a handful of the writers and analysts 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.760 in the Wall Street Journal. Umbrella. It's about China's projection. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.880 They're waging a gray zone campaign. And here's what they 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.640 mean by that, and it's, you know, the South China Sea, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:35.720 the Taiwan Strait, even up into the Himalayas. They're operating 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.240 in the hazy zone between war and peace to extend 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:38.800 their power. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:39.920 Here's what it looks like. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.360 Beijing carefully calibrates each move with the aim of staying 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.640 just below the threshold of action that. 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.600 Could trigger outright conflict. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.040 But step by incremental step, it is pushed deeper into 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.640 contested areas, exhausting opponents and eroding their strength with a 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:59.080 thousand cuts. What they're talking about is probes by warplanes, 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.520 maneuvered by kost guard ships, or the creeping construction of 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:07.199 new civilian settlements. They push you in the region right 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.480 to the brink of war, over and over and over again, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.160 and they carefully calculate what's going to bring a shooting 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:19.920 war on and calibrate just below that, over and over again. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:20.960 And it's interesting. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.400 This article is illustrated visually in a way that I 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.680 wish we could show you well. Post it at an 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.360 armstrong in getty dot com under hotlines. It'll probably get paywall, 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.240 I don't know, but it shows the actual tracking of 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.080 ships for instances little lines, and where there have been 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.360 a bunch of ships circling an island or whatever, it 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.000 becomes a very thick, heavy line. So you can look 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:44.600 at what China's doing physically satellite images and plane tracking 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:48.800 equipment and that sort of thing. But it is so 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:56.040 obviously increasingly aggressive in ways that are indefensible by their rhetoric, 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.400 Like they're pushing closer and closer and closer to the 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.520 coast of the Philippines and claiming islands and taking over islands, 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:08.760 or so heavily patrolling those islands and ramming ships. We've 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.360 seen that recently. Sometimes it's the Chinese Coast Guard. Sometimes 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:17.520 it's this militia of private fishing vessels which they've deputized 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.200 to just make life living hell for for instance, Filipino 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.120 fishermen or their navy or whatever, and so bit by 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.480 bit by bit, they're pushing everybody back and staying just 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.480 under what would trigger a shooting war. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.880 Now I'm endlessly fascinated with the whole China thing, and 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.880 I think everybody should be, because yeah, they're hell bent 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.640 on taking over the world. Do you think there would 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.080 be you could have when do we have the Beijing 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.000 Olympics coming some medy google that real quick. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:47.920 When we have the Olympics of Beijing? Wasn't that long ago? 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.360 I remember, I was shocked that it happened. I didn't 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.280 think it was like twenty twelve or something like that. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.520 But anyway we can look it up. That'll that'll never 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.720 happen again. What do you got there? Oh no, No, 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.800 the Winter Olympics isn't either. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.960 Yeah, Putin promised he wouldn't evade during the Olympics. 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:08.120 It's what twenty two, Yeah, so it was right before 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.160 the war in Ukraine. But I remember thinking then that 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.240 I can't believe we're participating. I mean, the whole world 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.240 is going to China and acting like they're just a 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:17.080 regular country. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.600 Surely we wouldn't now, but maybe we would. I don't know. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.440 The un is ridiculous, Yes it is, and it's worth 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:27.200 reviewing that whole system of little islands they created in 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.120 the South China Sea, where they built them up but 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:35.560 swore they wouldn't militarize them, then built you know, landing 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.440 strips and said, but don't worry, we won't put weapons 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.760 systems on them. And the reason that's been even more 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.720 important than anybody realized is because now all those islands 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.760 are like little military bases. They're stopping points so they 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.200 can patrol in a much wider area and not have 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.320 to come back home, so they can refuel, refeed the guys, whatever, 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.360 and project their power much more efficiently over a much 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:02.600 bigger zone. So that you have militarized a huge section 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.200 of the ocean that never was before. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:05.920 That is really interesting. 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:07.720 I have things to say about that, but maybe some 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:09.560 other time, because this topic will be around for a 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:10.359 very long time. 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.359 Armstrong and Geeddy, now. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.600 Look, I can't have you two at each other's throats, Okay, 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.960 after all, I have a perfect record. Everyone who's ever 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.320 worked for me has left on good terms and then 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.360 gone on to write a book called The Man. 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:27.320 Who Ruined Everything. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.760 So you too need to start acting like mature adults. 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.399 Okay, so let's begin with Marco Parno. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.800 No Eli, I'm trying to talk to MARCOO. 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:46.280 What is that? What's this? What's this? Doing this? What's this? 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.000 Nobody knows? Okay, it's his little dance. We let him 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.560 do it. It's his least unsettling trick. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.040 So that's from Saturday Night Live, which, weirdly, I'd like 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.320 to actually talk to Lorden Mark Michaels about this. I mean, 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.680 he's a genius of keeping that thing relevant over a 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:04.800 half a century, but the opening thing is always so 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:06.879 off putting to those of us who don't agree with 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:07.480 his politics. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.960 Then the rest of the show is sketch comedy. But 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.399 you got like a big chunk of the country that 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.320 can't get past your open every week. 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:18.399 So you're a sketch comedy that's just about any topic. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.159 It's non political. The show is mostly. 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.360 Non political, but for a whole bunch of Saturday Night 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.880 Live haters in this country, it's a political show because. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.760 I only see your opening segment. Stop with it? Would 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:28.440 you just stop? 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.520 Well, when your opening segment is a loud declaration of 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:33.359 you're not welcome here every week. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.359 It's an odd marketing. 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:40.160 Maneuver, right, But anyway, Elon now being portrayed by Mike 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.760 Myers and I come back Saturday Night Live, and just 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:46.840 the idea that Elon is now such a villain of 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:51.880 the left is man who saw that coming ten years ago? 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.840 No, nobody, nobody. I mean, he was the leader of. 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.879 We need to go electric with cars, climate changes our 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:04.240 biggest problem, you know, all that sort of stuff, and 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.080 a hero of the left, and you know, I live 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:07.719 in a part of the country, or people buying were 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:09.960 buying Tesla's even though they didn't make sense, and we're 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.240 way too expensive virtue signaling. Now it's flipped completely the 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.360 opposite direction, as we all know. Over the weekend, hundreds 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.160 of New Yorkers swarmed and shut down the Tesla dealer 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:23.040 in Manhattan. They shut down a major car dealership, an 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:27.680 electric car dealership. Six were arrested after occupying the showroom 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:32.439 and shattering all the windows and everything. And then they 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.399 said had to post a police at the big Tesla 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.560 dealerships and a whole bunch of other cities around the 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:39.480 country to try to try to protect them. 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:41.399 I saw a video. 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:43.639 I mean it was just one nut job running out 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.840 of the street and pounding on a cyber truck in traffic. 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:48.720 I don't know what this is going to do to 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:50.600 the value of Tesla's. 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.280 I almost want to buy a cyber truck now, just 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.240 as a giant middle finger to the people who ate 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.840 eln so much, because it's such a noticeable thing, just 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.639 like blon so the folks who pull this. 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:04.800 Sort of thing. Back in twenty twenty. 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:08.560 Two found that twenty two percent of car shoppers surveyed 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.520 said they would definitely consider a Tesla for their next vehicle, 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:15.359 purchased twenty two percent. By last summer, the percentage you 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:20.080 dropped to seven percent, dropped by more than two thirds, 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:21.480 roughly in line with Lincoln. 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.720 But it's now more popular with Republicans than Democrats. Even 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:27.920 though they're not actually probably going to buy the car, 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:31.080 their view of it is higher. 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.879 Yeah, yeah, it's It's definitely an unprecedented alignment of a 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.520 product with a political point of view in a way 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:45.119 that you know, it's not like, I mean, Target was 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:50.520 selling repugnant items for confused adolescents during their whole up 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:55.239 with trans thing. Okay, Tesla's just you get in it, 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:57.720 you go to the store, and then you come back 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:01.600 home again. It's not like it's plays Trump speeches and 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:03.280 that you can't turn them off or. 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:06.400 It'll you know, it'll only take you. 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:10.359 To the the VA, you know, any and not to 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:11.840 the ballet or. 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:15.760 The self driving system runs over government workers if it. 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:17.280 Sees them right. 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:21.600 It's an agnostic product. It's just but uh, well, more 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:23.200 on that in a second. Would there's a we got 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:26.119 some sort of protest locally you have, Katie, There was 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:30.720 a protest at the Tesla dealership on Arden Arcade on Saturday. 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:33.320 More than one hundred protesters showed up and they lined 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:36.080 both sides of the thoroughfare. One hundred's a pretty good 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.439 turnout on a Saturday for a car dealership because you 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:43.040 don't like the politics of the guy who started it. 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:45.160 It's now a publicly traded company. 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:47.960 I mean, it's just I mean, boy cutting bud light 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:53.200 because they had the trans person on there. You know, yeah, okay, 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:55.960 I'll drink a different beer that tastes exactly the same 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:56.520 or whatever. 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:56.800 I mean. 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:01.399 It's just there's so little but telling your car or 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.760